On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the belt ...

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Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades: The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the same star system. A team of ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of massive clouds of gas and dust known as ...

Looking near the heart of the Orion Nebula, this JWST image captures the Orion Bar. The Orion Bar is the fairly straight, diagonal feature that marks the transition from the hot ionized gas near the ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released a new trove of images capturing the Orion nebula this week—the latest stunning images of the far reaches of space that the advanced ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Hubble Space Telescope captured two young stars named HOPS 150, which glows a bright golden ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

An international team has made use of the power of the HAWK-I infrared instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to produce the deepest and most comprehensive view of the Orion Nebula to date.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) captured a stunning image of the Orion Nebula. The image was obtained from "multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope in ...